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The Cathedral of Saint Vibiana (Spanish: Catedral de Santa Vibiana), often called St. Vibiana's, is a former Catholic cathedral for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Located in Downtown Los Angeles , the building opened in 1876 as the cathedral for what was then known as the Diocese of Monterey–Los Angeles, and remained the official cathedral ...
Vibiana is a third-century virgin martyr of the Roman Catholic Church.She is the patroness of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.Her liturgical feast day is 1 September. The remains of Vibiana were rediscovered on December 9, 1853, in ancient catacombs near the Appian Way.
The organ is Opus 75 of Dobson Pipe Organ Builders of Lake City, Iowa, and is a 105 rank four-manual instrument that incorporates pipes from the 1929 Wangerin organ of St. Vibiana's Cathedral. The St. Vibiana instrument had been rebuilt in 1988 by Austin Organs. [16] The Dobson instrument has a total of 6,019 pipes and was dedicated in 2003.
The cathedral was dedicated on September 2, 2002, and replaced the former Cathedral of Saint Vibiana, damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake. The Archbishop of Los Angeles is the metropolitan of the Province of Los Angeles of the Catholic Church.
On July 7, 1859, the diocese was renamed the Diocese of Monterey-Los Angeles. The Co-Cathedral of Saint Vibiana was founded in Los Angeles and consecrated during the episcopacy of Amat. He brought back from Rome the relics of its patron saint, which were interred in a sarcophagus above the cathedral's main altar.
Cathedral of Saint Vibiana; Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul (Providence, Rhode Island) Cathedral of San Agustin (Laredo, Texas) Cathedral of St. Andrew (Little Rock, Arkansas) Cathedral of St. John the Baptist (Paterson, New Jersey) Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist (Milwaukee) Cathedral of St. Joseph (Manchester, New Hampshire) Cathedral ...
2002 – Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels built. 2003 Walt Disney Concert Hall [74] and Chinese American Museum [34] open. Los Angeles Derby Dolls (rollerderby) team formed. Metro Gold Line opens. 2004 – National Day Laborer Organizing Network headquartered in Los Angeles (approximate date). [citation needed] 2005
Conaty formally took charge of the diocese on June 18, 1903, when he was installed at the Cathedral of Saint Vibiana. [27] His 12 years as bishop was a period of growth for the diocese. At the beginning of his tenure in 1903, the diocese contained 101 priests, 121 churches, and 19 parochial schools to serve a Catholic population of 58,000. [28]